Kit Xiong

Speculative fiction writer and critic based in Buffalo, NY. My work tends to focus on placemaking and migration, post-industrial ecologies, and science fictions in techno-capitalist development. I graduated from Brown University with a BA in Comparative Literature and joined BICA School at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art in 2024.

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Selected Work

Curation

• Do Not Go Out of the Door (Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA), July-August 2025)
• Asian Racialization in Media and Beyond (collaborative digital exhibit, Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage Tiny Exhibits, December 2020)

Criticism and Scholarship

• "Walk on Water: Jenine Marsh's Microcosm" (Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalog, 09/2025)
• “But Still - the River: Dana Murray Tyrrell’s Love Canal” (AICA-USA Magazine Art Critics Fellowship, 03/2025)
• “Privatizing Childhood: Nostalgia, Anti-capitalist Survival, and the Inner Child in Kids’ Table” (Cornelia #16, 09/2024)
• “Post-apocalyptic Body World(ing): Transpacific Racial Capitalism, Coloniality, and Queer/Asian/Female Speculative Futures” (Honors Thesis in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 05/2023 - by request)
• “A Precarious Present and Potential Future for North American Freight Rail“ (The College Hill Independent 46.5, Spring 2023)
• "The COVID-19 Pandemic, in Eight Million Tons of Plastic" (The College Hill Independent 44.9, Spring 2022)
• “Kick Ass, Go to Space, Represent the Human Race” (The College Hill Independent 44.4, Spring 2022)

Fiction & Narrative

• "Suggested in the Stars: A Personality Quiz" (Nocturama, BICA Project Space, Jan-Mar 2025)
• "Lin Daiyu Goes to A Funeral" (Sine Theta #19, 2021)

WORKSHOPS

• "Divided Loyalties: Speculative Narratives Across Space/Time" (Arts for Something Workshop Series, 11/2025)

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